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G. A. BEACH.

CARRIAGE WARMER AND VBNTILATOR.

No. 390,153. Patented Sept. 25, 1888.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE,

GEORGE A. BEACH, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR, BY DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO EDVIN E. 'WISE, OF SAME PLACE.

CARRIAGE WARMER AND VENTILATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 390.153, dated September 25,1888,

Application filed February 24, 1887. Serial No. 228.648. (No model.)

To all whom it mag/concern,.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE A. BEACH, a citizen of the United States, residing in Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Carriage farmers and Ventilators, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to devices for warming and Ventilating closed carriages, coups, and other like vehicles.

The object of my invention is to provide a Ventilating and warming device of a safe, cheap, simple, and efficient construction,which will operate both to heat and ventilate the carriage, and which will be entirely out of the way, and be no obstruction to getting in or out of the carriage, and in no way interfere with the comfort and convenience of its occupants.

In my invention I employ a heater-frame of a size adapted to lit in the bottom or floor of the carriage between the side rails or framepieces and between the front and rear seats of the carriage, or between the seat and front end of the carriage, if the same has only one seat, so that this frame, with its perforated cover or plate,covers the floor of the carriage and furnishes a smooth and level surface similar to the iioor which it covers. The bottom or base of this frame is curved or shaped to correspond to the curve of the lloor or bottom of the carriage, and at its front and rear edges the heater-frame is made wedging or curved,

`so as to diminish its thickness at such parts.

As the heater-frame fits snugly in the floorspace of the carriage and has a base curved to correspond to the loor of the carriage, it will be held rigid and immovable in place and cannot be jostled about. This frameI provide with a series of interior ledges, upon which is supported a soapstone heater or other suitable heater. These ledges raise the soapstone somewhat from the base ofthe frame, so as to leave an air-space, preferably of about onequarter or one-half an inch in thickness, between the bottom of the frame and the under surface of the heater-stone. The ledges also extend up at the edges of the heater-stone, so as to leave an airspace all around the edges of the stone between the same and theheater- 5o frame. The frame is also furnished with an interior bottom or base, upon which rests the heat-protecting sheet of the frame, which is preferably made of non-conducting material, such as asbestus. The bottom of the frame supports the asbestus bottom somewhat above the bottom or floor of the carriage, and serves also to catch all dirt or dust. Through the asbestus bottom of the heater frame and through the door of the carriage I provide a 6o ventilator-opening iitted with a suitable thimble, the mouth of which thimble I cover with a perforated dust-plate. This ventilator-open ing permits the fresh air to enter beneath the heater-plate and pass upward around through the air-passages between the edges of the heater-plate and the heater-frame. The ledges before mentioned, upon which the heater-plate rests, also afford at the top a support for the hinged perforated cover of the heater, and 7e serve to support said cover a slight distance above the heater-stone, thus leaving anairspace between.

In the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specication, and in which similar letters of reference indicate like parts, Figure l is a longitudinal section of a portion of the carriage provided with my invention. Fig. 2 is a plan view of my heater and ventilator, a portion of the perforated heater-cover 8o being broken away. Fig. 3 is a cross-section of the carriage on line 3 3 of Fig. l. Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail section of the ventilatorthmble, and Fig. 5 is a plan view of the perforated dust-protector plate.

In said drawings, A represents the floor or bottom of a carriage. A represents the two longitudinal side rails or frame-pieces of the carriage, and A2 A3 the carriage-seats.

B represents my heater-frame, preferably of 9o cast-iron, adapted to fit in the space of the front of the rear seat and between the side rails, A A', of the carriage. The heater-frame B is curved at its ends B B', which lit at the sides of the carriage to correspond to the 9 5 curvature of the floor of the carriage, and the front and rear edges B2 B2 of the frame are made tapering, as indicated clearly in Fig. l,

so as to diminish the thickness of the frame at these edges. The frame B is provided with an interior bottom, b, upon which rests the secondary bottom C, which is preferably made of non conducting material, such as asbestus board. The frame B is also furnished with interior angle-ledges cl (Lupen which rests the heater D, preferably made of soapstone or other like material. The angle-ledges d d not only serve to support the heater-stone above the bottom plate, C, and furnish an air-space, cZ, between the two, but also serve to keep the edges of the heater-stone from extending out to the frame B, and thus leave an air-space,d2, between the edges of the stone and the inner wall of the heater-frame. The ledges d do not extend up quite ilush with the top of the heater-frame B, and the tops d3 of these ledges thus form shoulders upon which the perforated heater-cover E rests. A narrow space of a quarter of an inch or more is left between the heater-cover E and the heater-stone D. The perforations or openings e in the heater-cover E may be given any desired form or configurationsuch, Vfor example, as is common in ordinary registers. They, however, should be small enough to prevent small articles of apparel, die., which may be dropped from falling through the same.

The perforated cover E is provided with hinges c' at one side, by which it is connected to the heater-frame. The floor A of the carriage is provided with a ventilator-opening, f, and the non-conducting base G oi' the heaterframe is provided with a similar ventilator-- opening, f. In these ventilator-openings is litted the ventilator-thimble F, which connects the two together. The thimble F is provided with an enlargement or bell, f2, at its upper end, forming a shoulder, f", upon which rests a perforated dust-protector plate, F. The fresh air may thus freely enter through the vcntilator-thimble F and pass in through the air-spaces d d around the heater-stone and up through the openings c in the register-cover into the carriage.

The heater-stone D may be readily removed and replaced in its frame by simply raising the hinged register-cover E.

I hereby disclaim as not of my invention the devices shown and described in Patent No. 84,735, to Davidson; No. 181,437, to Hazelton; No. 212,403, to Russell and Russell, and No. 220,718, to .Iusth. In myinvention the heaterframe fits and rests upon the floorof the carriage and itself constitutes a smooth supplemental iloor for the carriage, and, while it is readily removable bodily from the carriage, it is held rigidly in place and prevented from jostling about by reason of its shape and by the fact that it fits snugly the entire door-space in front of the carriage-seat, and,while my heater combines in itself all these characteristics, it is also so constructed as to operate as a ventilator and supply fresh warm air to the close carriage.

1. rlhe combination, with a carriage, ol' a bodily-removable heater-frame B, adapted to lit in and upon the floor-space in front of the carriage-seat and provided with a bottom, b, and angle-ledges d, heater block D, resting upon said angle-ledges to form an air-space all around between said heater-stone and said heater-frame, and a ventilatorthimble,F, forming a Ventilating-opening through the iloor of the carriage and the bottom of said heaterframe, and a perforated heater-cover, E, substantially as specified.

2. rIhe combination, with a carriage, of a bodily-removable heater-frame, B, adapted to fit in and upon the floor-space in front of the carriage-seat, a perforated heater-cover, E, flush with the upper surface of said heaterframe and forming with said heater-frame a smooth and continuous supplemental upper floor for the carriage-space in front of the carriage-seat, said heater-frame having aperforated bottom, b, andangle-ledges d, and heaterstone D, resting upon said angle-ledges to form an air-space all around between said heaterstone and heater-frame, substantially as specilied.

3. rIhc combination, with a carriage, of a bodily-removable heater-frame, B, adapted to fit in and upon the {loer-space in front of the carriage-seat, a perforated heater-cover, E, flush with the upper surface of said heaterframe and forming with said heater-frame a smooth and continuous supplemental upper floor for the carriage-space in front ot' the carriage-seat, said heater-frame having a perforated bottom, b, and angle-ledges Land heaterstone D, resting upon said angle-ledges to form an air-space all around between said heaterstone and heater-frame, and ventilator-thimble F, extending through the carriage-floor and the bottom of said heater-frame, substantially as specified.

4t. The combination, vwith a carriage, of a bodily-removable heater-frame, B, filling the space in front of the carriage-seat and resting upon the floor of the carriage, said heaterframe being provided with bottom b and au gle-ledges d, a non-conducting bottom, C, a heateistoiie, D, a perforated heater-cover, E, and a ventilator-thimble, F, extending through the floor ofthe carriage and said bottoms b and C and furnished with a perforated dust-protector plate, F', said heater-frame and its perforated cover constituting a smooth and continuous supplemental floor for the carriage, substantially as specified.

5. The combination of bodily removable heater-frame B, having interior bottom, b, with non-conducting base-plate C, fitting upon said bottom b, an gle-ledges d, heater-stone D, resting upon said angleledges cl, hinged perforated heater-cover E, and ventilator-thimble F, having bell-mouth f and perforated dust-protector plate F', substantially as specified.

6. The combination of a carriage having a IOO IIO

ourved floor in front of its seat with bodilyremovable heater-frame B, having curved ends B B', to t the floor of the carriage,and tapering front and rear edges B2 B2, provided with angle-ledges d d, a heaterstone, D, fitting upon said angle-ledges, perforated heater-cover E, bottom b, and nonconduoting base-plate C, resting upon said bottom, said heater-frame resting upon the oor of the carriage and oonstituting, with its perforated cover, a smooth supplemental floor for the carriage, substantially as specified.

7. The combination of a carriage having a curved floor in front of its seat with bodilyremovable heater-frame B, having` curved ends B B, to t the floor of the carriage, and tapering front and rear edges B2 B2, provided with angle-ledges d el, a heater-stone, D, fitting upon said angle-ledges, a perforated heater-cover, E, bottom b, and non-conducting base-plate C, resting upon said bottom b, and a ventilatorthimble, F, there being continuous air-spaces between said base C, frame B, cover E, and heater-stone D, connecting with said Ventilator-thi1nb1e,said heater-frame resting upon the floor of the carriage and constituting,with its t perforated cover, a smooth supplemental floor for the carriage, substantially as specified.

GEORGE A. BEACH. Vitnesses:

EDMUND ADoooK, H. M. MUNDAY. 

